Books like 'Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume Three'
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Circus by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLadies and gentlemen, boys and girls... There is a loose rabbit with a ticking bomb in the streets of the London. Come closer, you won'd believe your eyes... Alice & the Pillar follow a set of clues, meticulously weaved by the most mysterious Wonderland Monster of all. Here is the Maddest Show on Earth ... The Circus! Where Alice's most unexpected secret will be revealed... -
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Shifter Shadowborns by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Rejected Mates Romance.Shifter Syndicate should have killed me, but instead, I entered the new year as a survivor.There's no time to celebrate, though. Betas are being hunted and wolf shifters across the Syndicate are getting kidnapped. Worse, the culprit lives among us. Then Red Dusks invade our territory, creating an overwhelming catastrophe none of us can stop... -
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Rumble of the Coaster Ghost by Troy Cummings
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStermont's latest monster is a real scream!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina... -
![Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen]()
Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I could rely on Bishop, I felt it in every fiber of my being. Only... I’d been wrong before.” Anja’s no longer the geeky newbie who couldn’t bite her way out of a paper bag. Since becoming Elder of the West, Anja stood up for what she believes in and found her place in vampire society... -
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![The Ghosts of Centre St. by Michelle Dorey]()
The Ghosts of Centre St. by Michelle Dorey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach tale of The Hauntings of Kingston is a standalone novel with new characters that takes place in the enigmatic city of Kingston, Ontario. Their blessing’s a curse… It’s a bolt out of the blue when Barry and Myra inherit a gorgeous manor home, one that they would never have been able to afford. The house is a wonderful place to start their family... -
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Night Terror: Book #2 by Jeff Gunhus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSequel to the Amazon Bestseller Night Chill. Ten years after her abduction and near-sacrifice to the Source, Sarah Tremont struggles to be a normal teenager. As much as she’s tried to suppress the power inside of her, it’s grown dangerously strong and has drawn the attention of those who want to possess her power for themselves... -
![Cold Sanctuary by Anthony M. Strong]()
Cold Sanctuary by Anthony M. Strong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe bogeyman is real. In a tunnel deep beneath an Alaskan mountain, a man is brutally murdered. Just one in a series of grisly deaths, it is not long before whispers grow that the Qalupalik, a terrifying creature born from centuries of superstition and fear, has come to wreak havoc on the small coastal town of Shackleton, Alaska... -
![The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown]()
The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr Newton Barlow and the Purgatorians are back. Now that the fight between good and evil has become routine, one-time sceptical physicist and unhappy medium, Dr Newton Barlow, is badly in need of a challenge. It arrives in the shape of a crime so cunning in its planning, so dastardly in its execution, that even the hyper-logical Dr Barlow will struggle to prevent it... -
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Hansel by Christopher Coleman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe evil witch's plague on the Back Country is over, but a new terror now lurks in a distant land.Years have passed since Marlene's death, and Gretel, unable to cope with her mother's descent into madness, has fled the Back Country for the solitude and anonymity of the Old World... -
![A Witch's Feast by C.N. Crawford, Carlos Quevedo]()
A Witch's Feast by C.N. Crawford, Carlos Quevedo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are new rules governing the country--namely, no magic. But Fiona Forzese has never been good with rules... After a ghostly army terrorized Boston, the Ranulf family say they'll help Fiona and her classmates finish up junior year. They say their old Virginia plantation is a safe haven. All Fiona and her secret coven have to to do is show up to a few math and English classes... -
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Guardian by Gillian Joy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is a pitiless mistress. Hannah is the Guardian now. Her mother’s murder by an unknown vampire fuels a journey of vengeance, desire and agony. She must find the one responsible, and in the hunt, finds that death is no mate to destiny. A handsome childhood sweetheart and another, dark and dangerous, vie for her affection as she searches for her mother’s killer... -
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Italo Calvino
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCompiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors... -
![Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels]()
Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI hear a train outside my window. Every night, it gets closer. I got called to landscape a strange garden--that blooms in the middle of December. I visited the Titanic shipwreck. There's something down there no one should see... DON’T SCREAM 3 brings you 30 more terrifying tales for your darkest nights... -
![Marlene's Revenge by Christopher Coleman]()
Marlene's Revenge by Christopher Coleman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTerror. Danger. Power. The witch has returned and no one is safe.Almost a year has passed since Anika and Gretel's horrifying night in an abandoned cannery in the Back Country, and the subsequent beginning of their quest to the Old Country for answers to the mysteries of Orphism...Categorized as:
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![The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune]()
The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path... -
![Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder]()
Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... BURNING BODIES A crime wave has swept the Los Angeles area, which under normal circumstances would be par for the course. But nothing links these particular victims except the cause of deaththeir bodies were burned from the inside out. Obviously supernatural forces are at work... -
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Red Creek by Nathan Hystad
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere's a dark shadow over Red Creek. Once a best-selling horror author, Paul Alenn is in a slump. His wife and daughter are across the country, moved away to the West Coast, leaving him alone in his Central Park-adjacent New York townhouse...Categorized as:
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Dark Voyage by Helen Susan Swift
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.It’s 1914, and fear and paranoia rule the high seas.Iain Cosgrove is newly married to Jennifer Manson, daughter of a wealthy Scottish merchant. But Iain must soon leave for a research trip aboard the Lady Balgay, last of Dundee’s once-grand sealing fleet...Categorized as:
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![Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone]()
Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you’re fated to fall, rising up to howling glory is the last thing you’d ever expect. My birth — like that of many Shadowborns — was a mistake. A demon hybrid of wolf and dusk, I started life as a dead shifter walking with little hope of survival.Every day death tries to claim me, but somehow I keep living, only to end up in the dangerous hidden depths of Shifter Syndicate... -
![Music Box by Anya Allyn]()
Music Box by Anya Allyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final terrifying story of The Dark Carousel series. As the day of Cassie's marriage to the centuries-old spirit, Balthazar, grows chillingly close, she finds a secret way to the high tower. The shadowy inhabitant of the tower has haunted her mind since her first day at the castle. In the tower, Cassie makes a shocking discovery, after which nothing can be the same... -
![Chasing Midlife Demons by Heloise Hull]()
Chasing Midlife Demons by Heloise Hull
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA NEW PWF novel from the author of Making Midlife Magic, for those who like their rosé chilled and their demons hot!The last time the police knocked on my door, I lost my husband. Now they’re back, and this time, it’s about my mother.She’s fine, for now, but she’s deteriorating fast. Her mind is failing her, and her body isn’t far behind...Categorized as:
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![Wasp Canyon by Danielle McCrory]()
Wasp Canyon by Danielle McCrory
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHEN THE DARKNESS COMES, THE TEETH AND THE CLAWS COME WITH IT.Jessica Cleary took up running the Arizona hiking trails as a way to cope with the recent loss of her father. While out on a run in Wasp Canyon, Jessica stumbles upon a gruesome scene and finds herself injured and running for her life... -
![Unhinged by Chani Lynn Feener]()
Unhinged by Chani Lynn Feener
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Underworld is real.Spencer Perry knew it was a long shot when she started searching for a way into the Underworld, the ancient Greeks resting place for the dead. But three months ago her boyfriend died and now she’ll do anything to get him back, even make a deal with the devil himself. Only, Hades isn’t what she expected, and neither is the proposal he offers... -
![Wolfsbane by William W. Johnstone, William Teason]()
Wolfsbane by William W. Johnstone, William Teason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnce the bayou was thick with wolfsbane. But for years the people of Ducros Parish, Louisiana, have been free of the ancient root--and its ancient evil. But now it has returned, and Ducros Parish will once again be a place of nightmarish terror. Johnstone is the author of Cat's Cradle... -
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![The Haunting of RedRise House by Caroline Clark]()
The Haunting of RedRise House by Caroline Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark things happened in RedRise House. Acts so bad they left a stain on the soul of the building. Now something is lurking there... waiting... dare you enter this most haunted house? Rosie is running from her past. Looking for peace and a new beginning. House sitting in the luxurious and romantic RedRise House seemed like a perfect plan to rediscover herself and rebuild her life... -
![It Came With The Crash (Creature Encounters) by Boris Bacic]()
It Came With The Crash (Creature Encounters) by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey thought the plane crash was the worst that could happen to them. They were dead wrong.Stranded in the middle of the forest and without help, six crash survivors forge a plan to stay alive in the harsh conditions that surround them. As the days go on and their supplies dwindle, the tension in the group increases...Categorized as:
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Hades and Persephone - Keeper of Sins by Alannah Carbonneau
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor new adult and adult fantasy book lovers comes a new spicy gods romantasy packed with banter and chemistry featuring a reimagined tale of the ancient myth of Hades and Persephone. What if the myth of Hades and Persephone isn’t just myth? And what if there is more to the story? HadesThe story the world knows today is only a fraction of our truth. Mine and hers.I took her, yes... -
![Cherokee Sabre by Jamison Roberts]()
Cherokee Sabre by Jamison Roberts
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a legend you'd grown up hearing turned out not only to be true, but much older than you could have imagined?Professor of Archaeology, Theodore Stone encounters this problem first hand in Cherokee Sabre, a creature feature thriller containing an adaptation of a Cherokee legend. The Wampus Cat... -
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![Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann]()
Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSupernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price...Categorized as:
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![Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos by Robert M. Price]()
Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos by Robert M. Price
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers—among them his closest peers—added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master’s dark vision...Categorized as:
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![Immortal Remains by Sean Cummings]()
Immortal Remains by Sean Cummings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's not a detective and he doesn't give a crap if your spouse is cheating on you. Human and supernatural beings avoid him like the plague because if you get too close he'll gleefully tell you the time and date of your own demise and that's before he punches you in the face... -
![Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew]()
Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJulienne’s aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the woman who lives on the moon. They teach her that there’s more to the city of her birth than meets the eye – that beneath the modern chrome and glass of Hong Kong there are demons, gods, and the seethe of ancient feuds... -
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Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn old Edo, the past was never forgotten. It lived alongside the present, in dark corners, and in the shadows. In these tales, award-winning author Miyuki Miyabe explores the ghosts of Japan, and the spaces of the living world they inhabit. Written with a journalistic eye and a fantasist’s heart Apparitions bring the restless dead, and those who encounter them, to life... -
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![Fire Boy by Sami Shah]()
Fire Boy by Sami Shah
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Sami Shah comes Fire Boy, the first of a two-part urban fantasy set in modern-day Pakistan, where djinns roam the street alongside corrupt cops, hustling beggars, and creatures from the darkest corners of Islamic mythology.Growing up in Karachi isn't easy. Wahid has a lot on his mind: the girl he likes, mostly, but also choosing a good university and finding time to play Dungeons and Dragons... -
![Aickman's Heirs by Simon Strantzas, Nina Allan]()
Aickman's Heirs by Simon Strantzas, Nina Allan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Robert Aickman was a master of what he called 'strange stories,' and though his fiction has been categorized as horror, it's actually its own beast... -
![Video Nasties by Duncan Ralston]()
Video Nasties by Duncan Ralston
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings16 horror tales in the tradition of Stephen King, Richard Matheson and The Twilight Zone! Video Nasties - After discovering a box of old video tapes outside an abandoned warehouse, a young film enthusiast inadvertently releases horror director Nicolo Funelli and his "video nasties" from VHS imprisonment... -
![You Invited It In by Sarah Jules]()
You Invited It In by Sarah Jules
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, it’s best to mind your own business.Felix Eastwood is your average guy, except for the fact that he can see the spirits of the dead.Lilith Lavelle is a fraudulent psychic, plying her trade on social media... -
![The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales by Naguib Mahfouz]()
The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEgyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural... -
![Bigfoot Hunters by Rick Gualtieri]()
Bigfoot Hunters by Rick Gualtieri
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvolution is about to be kicked in the teeth by some very large feet.An ancient terror has descended upon a remote Colorado town. The legendary beasts known as Sasquatch have emerged from the woods, hell-bent on killing everything in their path.The only thing standing in their way are a group of wayward campers, a few scared survivors, and the host of a cable TV show...but it might just be enough... -
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Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClose your eyes. Picture open plains, wheat stalks swaying gently in the wind. Picture the quaint Main Street of a one-stoplight town. Picture endless summers on sunny, tranquil lakes. With four provocative novellas, Kill Creek author and Kansas native Scott Thomas takes a hatchet to the idyllic tropes of the American heartland... -
![The Haunting of Ghost Asylum: A Haunting Investigation by Jack Steen]()
The Haunting of Ghost Asylum: A Haunting Investigation by Jack Steen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn my hometown, there's a haunted asylum. I know what you're thinking…is it really haunted?My brother thought so. Thirty years ago, he went there with his best friend, and only one of them came home alive.What happened that night has haunted me ever since.I went to school to become a parapsychologist - I study apparitional experiences and determine if ghosts are real - all because of my brother... -
![Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri]()
Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn ordinary bubble may seem pretty harmless to you. To the monsters of La La Land, however, a fragile, shimmering bubble is an object of terror, and when the frightening habits of bubbles are detailed by a fear-mongering monster, Yerbert, Froofle, and Wumpus run away and cry. But with encouragement from the narrator and from readers--"Go on, Wumpus, you can do it. (Tell Wumpus he can do it... -
![The Caretaker of Lorne Field by Dave Zeltserman]()
The Caretaker of Lorne Field by Dave Zeltserman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJack Durkin is the ninth generation of Durkins who have for nearly 300 years weeded Lorne Field. It's an important job, though no one else seems to realize it. For, if the field is left untended, a horrific monster called an Aukowie will grow.Short listed by the American Library Association for best horror novel of 2010. Black Quill nominee for best dark genre book of the year... -
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![Ravenous by Ray Garton]()
Ravenous by Ray Garton
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA corpse gets up and walks out of the hospital morgue. Minutes later, a policeman is killed outside the same hospital - and partially eaten. Something deadly has come to the coastal California town of Big Rock - something that's leaving mangled and devoured bodies in its wake... -
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Witches by Erica Jong
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis witch's brew of a book is back in all its tantalizing glory to enchant a new generation of readers. Best-selling author Erica Jong here turns her attention to the fantastical and factual world of witchcraft... -
![Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by Erin Gilbert, Abby L Yates]()
Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by Erin Gilbert, Abby L Yates
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings**As seen in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Ghostbusters**Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the ground-breaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past - now back in print!Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... -
![The Sorrows by Jonathan Janz]()
The Sorrows by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBen Shadeland and Eddie Blaze are the hottest young music composers in Hollywood. Fresh off an Oscar nomination, they've just been chosen to score a big-budget horror movie by Lee Stanley, the most demanding director in film. But Ben, the creative half of the duo, hasn't written a note since his wife divorced him and got custody of their three-year-old son... -
![The Haunting of Keepers Hall: The Keeper Series Book One by Cat Knight]()
The Haunting of Keepers Hall: The Keeper Series Book One by Cat Knight
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Prodigal Daughter. A Seeping Malevolence. Her Ancestral Home. Anna Underestimated Her Legacy. That Was A Grave Mistake.Anna Markham’s old family home has come to her as an inheritance...Categorized as:
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![Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally, H.R. Heaton]()
Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally, H.R. Heaton
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCeltic lore holds a wealth of colorful characters beyond the famed leprechaun. And this gathering of late 19th century traditional folk tales brings together the best of the Emerald Isle's fabled denizens...
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